All Endings in Ixion and How to Unlock

Ixion is a city-building and survival simulation game with a lot to do. You, the Administrator, must navigate and leave the solar system and find a habitable planet beyond the stars. There will be many of choices to make and uninhabitable planets to visit. You’ll come across an enemy with the extreme desire to destroy you and your planetary space station, the Tiqqun. This will become a race against time to find and settle a new planet before the killer ship Piranesi destroys the planet first. However, all hope may not be lost. There is more than one way to complete and beat the game. Here are all endings in Ixion and how to unlock them.

Alternate Endings for Ixion

There are two main endings of Ixion. One is the most direct and open route that the storyline presents to you as being the only real option for most of the game. That option is colonizing the planet, Remus. However, as you travel and explore and encounter the planet killer ship Piranesi, you will discover a second hospitable planet, Romulus. It is up to you to decide which planet will be easier to inhabit within the unknown time frame given. You must colonize one before the Piranesi destroys either or both of them.

Settling Remus Ending

Remus is already inhabited by an abnormally tall, green, humanoid species called Ashtangites. The Ashtangites actually contacted the company that built the Tiqqun previously and offer to help facilitate human assimilation to the planet. The atmosphere is too thin for humans to adapt to but a bio-engineering device can be built.

There are 3 space temples in the system with old blueprint fragments that will help build the bio-engineering device. You must travel to all 3 temples to retrieve the fragments to begin building the bio-engineering construct and start transforming humans into a new species for survival.

Be wary of these temples. You will be given the option to explore them instead of just taking the blueprints and leaving. This results in the death of exploration crews multiple times. This could lead to wasting too much time and effort and allowing the Parnesi to catch up and destroy Remus.

Once you acquire all three blueprints you will be presented with the “forbidden upgrade”. This is the bio-engineering machine used to alter the human DNA of everyone on your ship. Click to being the process to begin the end game for this ending option. The bio-assimilation process will take 10 cycles to complete.

Once the process is complete, you can travel to Remus (if you left orbit) and send your people down to the surface. The new DNA-altered race of humans will now begin to live and thrive with the Ashtangites as a new chapter of humanity begins. You have won the game with this ending!

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Settling Romulus Ending

Romulus is a secret habitable planet hidden by the Tiqqun’s AI system Edden. Until you deal with the Piranesi for the first time, Romulus is unknown to exist. After looking through Edden’s files you discover Romulus is hidden from you for some reason. The creator of Tiqqun did not want you to settle there. You can choose to override Edden’s protocols. Shut it down and begin the steps to colonize and settle on Romulus instead of Remus.

One of the first steps to take in order to colonize Romulus is to protect your population’s descent into the atmosphere. You will have to construct new smaller shuttles to avoid mass loss of colonists descending through Romulus’ somewhat toxic atmosphere. Don’t let that stop you from colonizing.

There are several steps needed and many resources required to build different livable infrastructures on Romulus you must complete in an orderly and timely fashion. Once you have built enough of these before the Pirensi destroys either planet, you will have completed your mission.

Romulus will become completely habitable through these efforts. The entirety of the Tiqqun ship population will be able to land on the planet and begin a new chapter for humanity.

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Third ‘Ending’: Failure

While there are only two planetary options to beat the game, there are a number of ways to lose the game as well. If crew health or hunger becomes an issue, too many people may die for you to operate the Tiqqun. Morale can also have an effect. If the population’s faith in you is too low, they can mutiny. However, there is another option that ends in complete tragedy.

The Piranesi’s ability to track you down and arrive at Remus or Romulus works as a sort of timer for the game. If you do not complete your tasks, build up enough resources and successfully settle on one of the two planets in time, the Piranesi can destroy them.

The Piranesi will always go after Remus first. If you choose to settle Romulus instead, then you’ll have more time to do so. No matter which option you choose, if you do beat out the Piranesi the same conclusion on how to deal with the planet killer ship will happen.

Once your people are safe on their new home planet, the Tiqqun will be piloted, manned only by you the Administrator, full speed into the Piranesi. This destroys the threat and saves your people and their new home.

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